Description: This session at the SOA 1998 Maui I Spring Meeting discusses strategic planning for an actuarial consulting firm or any other type of company with a focus on changing with the times and capturing new opportunities.

Description: This article presents the results of a survey of financial assumptions contained in 2003 embedded value reports. The purpose of the survey was to provide international actuaries with benchmark assumption data and to enhance the knowledge of actuaries about current international market conditions and practices.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Spring Meeting discusses self-insurance and captive insurance companies including the motives for forming captive insurance companies, the captive concept as it applies to credit insurance, bank holding company captive insurers, the financial and non-financial reasons and operational considerations.

Description: In this article, the authors discuss the Experience Study Working Group surveys of published embedded value EV financial assumptions they have been conducting.